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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I don't take offense to it because I agree with it. There was a period from about 1992 to 1997 where you couldn't walk down a street without bumping into something Venom related along the way. Then Marvel completely jumped the shark and essentially tried printing money with the guy, with all of the awful limited series (they got really bad after the Madness...although I enjoyed Separation Anxiety...) goofy action figures, T-shirts, posters, video games etc. By then the character had become so watered down during his anti-hero run that I briefly stopped being interested in him altogether. I mean, did Marvel really expect me to buy a 3 issue mini-series with him battling a Pied Piper emulating Demo-Goblin, or "The Mace", a Rob Liefeld looking, reject cyber ninja...at 3 bucks a pop no less?

I because I always felt that he was at his best when Brock was stalking Peter. As a villain, he had charm and charisma, was slick and tricky, and felt passionate, and as a hero for the most part, he just kinda felt forced and cliche', and eventually he kinda faded off because the well had run dry.

Then the thing with Flash Thompson cosplaying as Veno-sher happened and lone behold, here we go again. Thankfully it hasn't hit Deadpool levels yet, but I can imagine that once that first trailer for Sony's Venom drops, it'll be 1996 all over again...or worse...it'll be Harley or DP from last summer...

Lol...we're in total agreement, my dude. '96 was so bad for so many characters and books, I wasn't even paying attention to comics during that period...I found better things to do with my time and money...much like now...